Re:Kmart's use of facial recognition to tackle refund fraud ...
by eej71 on Monday September 22, 2025 @08:46AM
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My other favorite example of this is the A&W Restaurants which in the states was a bit more of a fast food establishment. It was never that successful, but you'd see them every so often. Gone now in the states, but I believe its Canadian successor is still going strong.
Re:Kmart's use of facial recognition to tackle refund fraud ...
by natebc on Monday September 22, 2025 @08:52AM
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There's still quite a few A&W restaurants around in the US though they are rareish.
https://awrestaurants.com/locations-list/
400+ according to their wikipedia entry.
Re:Kmart's use of facial recognition to tackle refund fraud ...
by bombcar on Monday September 22, 2025 @10:37AM
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A&W is exceptionally rural now, and I'm not 100% sure why - it's a weird combination of fast food (drive thru) + waitress/sit down ordering that doesn't really exist anywhere else (kind of how there are a few carhop/drive UP restaurants that still exist).
Re:Kmart's use of facial recognition to tackle refund fraud ...
by Washuu on Monday September 22, 2025 @10:25AM
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There are bunch of A&W restaurants in Okinawa as well and as far as I know, it's popular.
Re:Kmart's use of facial recognition to tackle refund fraud ...
by lupusreal on Monday September 22, 2025 @09:36AM
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The Canadian A&Ws are very good as far as fast food burger joints go. The American version is quite shitty though, last time I saw one years ago.
Re:Kmart's use of facial recognition to tackle refund fraud ...
by jasona123 on Tuesday September 23, 2025 @12:22AM
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Canadian A&W is expensive though - like "only really go for a treat" expensive. Made McDicks somehow more reasonable.
Re:Kmart's use of facial recognition to tackle refund fraud ...
by Klonoar on Monday September 22, 2025 @09:15AM
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Australia also still has E.B Games.
Re:Kmart's use of facial recognition to tackle refund fraud ...
by JackFr on Monday September 22, 2025 @09:55AM
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On a recent visit to the UK (from the US) I briefly thought I was in an alternate universe because their TJ Maxx stores are virtually identical but inexplicably called TK Maxx.
(Well, not quite inexplicably. Wikipedia cleared it up for me.)
And sometimes it’s just a different store that licensed the name for 100 years.